Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower